Pardoner

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  • noun. One that pardons.
  • noun. A medieval ecclesiastic or layman authorized to raise money for religious works by granting papal indulgences to contributors.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who pardons or forgives; one who absolves an offender from punishment or blame.
  • noun. One who is licensed to sell papal indulgences or pardons.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who pardons.
  • noun. A seller of indulgences.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a medieval cleric who would sell pardons and indulgences
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a medieval cleric who raised money for the church by selling papal indulgences
  • noun. a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense
  • Word Usage
    "This meager use of the pardon power isn't only a shirking of an important presidential duty, as former Maryland governor and prolific pardoner Robert Ehrlich argued in a recent Baltimore Sun editorial; it also makes no sense."
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